Feb 15, 2008 10:46 pm US/Eastern
Walken Receives Harvard's Hasty Pudding Award
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Christopher Walken receives Harvard's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year award.
WBZ
Christopher Walken sang a song from "Hairspray" and spoofed a "Saturday Night Live" skit on Friday night to earn Harvard's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year award.
At a roast before the presentation, Walken, who serenaded John Travolta in "Hairspray" last year, sang to a Harvard student in drag.
Another cast member from Harvard's student drama group came on stage banging a cow bell, evoking the SNL skit in which Walken played a music producer who called for "more cow bell."
Walken, who joked afterward that "I'd have prepared or had a couple of drinks" if he had known what was in store, donned a copper-colored bra and brown wig. He couldn't get into a pair of blue pumps that were supposed to be part of the outfit, doing a dance in his street shoes instead.
"I hope nobody's watching," Walken said. "I acted on a stage in a play about 20 years ago."
In a more serious vein, Walken said he was "amazed and thrilled" by the honor.
He added, "Harvard has all the cow bell that it needs."
The 64-year-old Walken won a best supporting actor Oscar as a troubled Vietnam veteran in 1978's "The Deer Hunter." He was nominated again for 2002's "Catch Me If You Can."
Last year, he was also was featured in the film "Balls of Fury."
Talisa Friedman, press manager for the Hasty Pudding drama troupe, said Walken exemplifies the Hasty Pudding spirit and the value it puts on fun.
Charlize Theron also won a Hasty Pudding award this year. Last year's recipients were Ben Stiller and Scarlett Johansson.
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